Author: Diane Meyer, D.D.S.

Save a Tooth or Save a Life? The Root Canal Controversy

Controversy surrounding the efficacy of root canals has been ongoing since Dr. Westin A. Price’s research in the early 1900s. Motivated by the death of his only child at a very young age from endocarditis after having a root canal, Dr. Price began his research to prevent other parents from having to live the same fate as he.